Call: Papers wanted for "Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography"

Call for Papers

Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography

We invite contributions for a proposed collection of essays on visual
autobiography, focusing on health, bodies, and embodied subjectivities.
The collection will consider how cultural practices of self-narration
and self-portraiture image and imagine unruly bodies and, in so doing,
respond to Patricia Zimmerman's call for "radical media democracies
that animate contentious public spheres" (2000, p. xx).

How are health, dis/ability, and the body theorized, materialized, and
politicized in visual autobiographies, including forms such as
photography, video art, graphic memoir, film, body art and performance,
and digital media? We are particularly interested in the potential of
visual autobiographies to:
-explore how bodies negotiate disciplinary regimes and technologies
-produce counterdiscursive manoeuvres and new representational spaces
-investigate how power/knowledge relations constitute embodiments
-provoke critical and ethical reflection

We welcome contributions from academic- and arts-based researchers and
practitioners. We encourage a wide range of critical perspectives:
cultural studies, critical theory, disability studies, feminist
studies, critical race studies, diaspora studies, queer studies,
Aboriginal studies, globalization studies, literary studies, art
history, music, media studies, theatre and performance studies.
Analytic approaches could involve: textual analysis; histories,
presents, and futures; practices and practitioners; and pedagogy.

Possible topics:
dis/ability
sickness/wellness
disease
bodies negotiating borders and boundaries
traded and disappeared bodies
trauma and testimony
memory and memorializing
monstrosity
care of the self
care-giving
fatness and body size
aging
body alterations and transformations
environments
activisms

Send a 300- to 500-word abstract, working title, and a brief bio, by
email in a Word attachment, to Sarah Brophy (brophys@mcmaster.ca) and Janice Hladki (hladkij@mcmaster.ca) on or before May 15, 2008.
Inquiries are also welcome. Final papers should range in length from
4000-8000 words.

About the editors: Sarah Brophy is an Associate Professor in English
and Cultural Studies, McMaster University. Janice Hladki is an
Associate Professor in Theatre and Film Studies, McMaster University.

Call: "Comin' Out Swingin': Sexualities in Improvisation" interdisciplinary symposium seeks writers and artists

> Hi all,
>
> Our friends and colleagues at UBC are holding an
> interdisciplinary symposium on contemporary improvised musics in
> Vancouver on November 16 & 17, 2007 titled "Comin' Out Swingin':
> Sexualities in Improvisation".
>
> Please find attached and below the call for papers for the
> symposium, an exciting opportunity for engaging in dialogue
> around improvisational music, gender, and sexuality.
>
> Gregory Fenton
> Managing Editor
> Critical Studies in Improvisation/ Études critiques en
> improvisation
> 519-824-4120 Ext 56547
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Comin’ Out Swingin’: Sexualities in Improvisation
> A Symposium
> Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
> November 16 & 17 2007
>
> Improvised and Creative New Musics have been on the upswing in
> recent years, but listeners, critics and scholars have said
> little, so far, about the relationships of the various forms and
> practices of improvisation to gender and sexuality. Compositions
> and performances in recent years by such prominent artists as
> Fred Hersch, Marilyn Lerner, Patricia Barber, Irene Schweizer,
> Maggie Nicols, Gary Burton, Pauline Oliveros, Lori Freedman,
> Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi, Miya Masaoka, Evan Parker, Peter
> Brötzmann and many others have placed the cultural politics of
> gender directly at issue, while many recorded works from the
> history of improvised music and jazz (from Valaida Snow to Cecil
> Taylor, from Billy Strayhorn to Andy Bey) provoke a
> reconsideration of the music’s relationship to sexuality and
> identity.
>
> With an ear to addressing this gap, th e second Creative Music
> Think Tank presented by Coastal Jazz and Blues Society in
> conjunction with St. John’s College and the Department of
> English at the University of British Columbia) invites proposals
> for critical and scholarly conference papers on gender,
> sexuality and improvisation. Essays can range from theoretical
> to practical, from aesthetic to political in their aims and
> methods, and interdisciplinary work is both welcome and
> encouraged. We are especially interested in provocative,
> informed work that deals with improvisation in as unlimited a
> sense as possible. Submissions are invited from both academic
> and non-academic writers and critics.
>
> The symposium will be held in Vancouver from November 16 & 17,
> 2007, and will be coordinated with a set of evening concerts.
> Selected papers from the conference will be published in a
> special issue of Critical Studies in Improvisation,
> http://www.criticalimprov.com/public/csi/index.html. Possible
> themes and areas of interest for conference presentations may
> include, but are not limited to, any of the following topics:
>
>
> Queer Music
> Sexing the Ear of the Other
> Women in Contemporary Creative Music
> Body Languages: Fingering, Tonguing, Blowing
> Performance and Performativity
> The Poetics of Improvisation: Speaking in Music
> Musical Affect, the Textures of Feeling
> The Politics of Dissonance: Fractured Identities
> Improvising Masculinities
> The Instrument as Prosthesis
> Radical Subcultures: Revolting Noise
> The History of Sexuality in/and Contemporary Creative Music
> Transitive Genders: Playing with Our Selves
> The Erotics of Close Listening
> Bump and Grind: Rhythm and Corporealities
> Mixed Media, Cyborg Songs
> Extemporaneous Positions: Improvising Sexualities
> Auscultation and other Apparatuses of Audience
> Other than Music: Confronting Idioms of the Heteronormative
>
>
>
> Please submit conference-paper proposals of no more than 500
> words — finished papers should conform to a 20-minute delivery —
> by July 15, 2007 to Dr. Kevin McNeilly
> mcneilly@interchange.ubc.ca or Dr. Julie Smith
> julie@coastaljazz.ca
>
>
> k_and_e_99@yahoo.com
>
>

Call: The Second IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer System (Tabletop2007) seeks papers

The Second IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive
Human-Computer System (Tabletop2007)

Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 10-12, 2007.
Held in conjunction with ACM UIST 2007

http://www.ieeetabletop2007.org/

Supported by IEEE

The use of the tabletop as an input/output device is an exciting and
emerging research area. This cross-disciplinary domain brings together
experts in projector based display systems, augmented reality, user
interface technologies, multi-modal interaction, input and sensing
technologies, CSCW, and information visualization.

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together leading researchers in
the field so that they can present and exchange current results of
ongoing investigations.

We encourage researchers and developers to present in the following
areas as they relate to interactive tabletops:
* Applications
* Gesture-Based Interfaces
* Multi-Modal Interfaces
* Speech Interfaces
* Tangible Interfaces
* User Interface Technologies
* Computer Supported Collaboration Systems
* Middleware and Network Support
* Augmented Reality
* Social Protocols
* HapticRendering
* Information Visualization
* Horizontal Display Hardware
* Sensing and Input Technologies


Paper Submission:

We invite submissions of two kinds - regular research papers of up to 8
pages and short papers of up to 4 pages describing original research on
investigations into horizontal oriented user interface based (tabletop)
systems.

Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in IEEE Computer
Science Press format (described at
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf).

Each paper will be peer reviewed by no less than three experts in the
field.
Accepted research papers will be included in the IEEE proceedings and
presented in the paper sessions.

Submission details will be available at:
http://www.ieeetabletop2007.org/


Important Dates:

June 8th, 2007: Paper titles and abstracts due
June 15th, 2007: Paper submissions due
July 12th, 2007: Notification of acceptance sent to
authors
October 10-12, 2007: Tabletop2007 workshop, Newport,
RI.


Chairs:

General Co-Chairs:
Andy Wilson (Microsoft Research) awilson [at] microsoft [dot] com
Clifton Forlines (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs) forlines [at] merl
[dot] com

Program Chair:
Kathy Ryall (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs) ryall [at] merl [dot]
com

Program Co-Chair:
Stacey Scott (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) sdscott [at] mit
[dot] edu

Call For Papers: CCCT 2007

CCCT 2007 will be held in Orlando, Florida on July 12-15, 2007

March 8th, 2007 is the deadline for paper/abstract submissions and
invited session proposals. http://www.info-cyber.org/ccct2007
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The registration fee of effective invited session organizers will be
waived and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, a
package of 4 DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial
"Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of
Complex Adaptive Systems". The market price of this package is US $
295. Twelve more benefits for invited session organizers are listed at
CCCT 2007 web page.

The best 10%-20% of the papers will be published in Volume 6 of JSCI
Journal (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI). 24 issues (volumes 1, 2, 3
and 4) of the Journal have been sent to approximately 200 universities
and research libraries, Promotional, free subscriptions, for 2 years,
are being provided to the organizations of the Journal's authors.

Submitted papers will go through three reviewing processes:
double-blind, non-blind (open) and participative reviewing. All
submissions will be sent to at least three reviewers, selected by the
Organizing Committee, for their respective double-blinded review.
Submitted papers or extended abstracts will also be sent to 1-3
reviewers suggested by the author(s) for their open, non-blind, review.
All papers will be included in a participative reviewing where other
authors, who also made submissions to the same area can access the
papers submitted to this area, in order to read them and provide
constructive feedback.

The three kinds of reviewing will support the acceptance process for
the selection of the papers to be presented at the conference, as well
as the selection of the best 10%-20% of the papers that will be
included in the JSCI journal. All papers accepted for presentation in
the conference will also be included in the conference proceedings.

The papers selected, after their presentation, as the best ones of
their regular or invited session, will also be considered for their
inclusion in the Journal. The authors of the best 30%-40% of these
papers will be invited to modify or extend their papers for its
respective publication in the Journal.

For those who are interested in organizing an invited session, please,
fill the respective form provided in the conference web page, and we
will send you a password (if it is pre-approved) so you can include and
modify papers in your invited session.

Invited session organizers with the best performance will be co-editors
of the proceedings volume where their sessions' papers were included,
and of the CD electronic proceedings. They will also be candidates for
invited editors, or co-editors, of a possible JSCI Journal issue
related to their invited session papers. Information on the suggested
steps to organize an invited session has been included in the
conference web site.

Submissions from both academia and industry are encouraged. Research
papers, case studies, lessons learned, status reports, and discussions
of practical problems faced by industry and user domains are all
welcomed submissions.

If you need a detailed Call for Papers and Participation, don't
hesitate in asking us for it. You can also get it from the conference's
web site.

If the deadlines are tight and you need more time, let us know about a
suitable time for you and we will inform you if it is feasible for us.


Dr. C.Dale Zinn
CCCT 2007 Program Chair

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